Larry Vilyanuva Biography
Mass manifestations in a number of countries of the region occur against the backdrop of the growing opposition of local governments by the influence of the United States. Under the pressure of the opposition, the head of the government of Peru was replaced. The new prime minister of the country was Rene Kornekho, a former Minister of Housing Construction. Having voiced such a populist idea, Willianueva announced the coordination of the issue of raising salaries with the Minister of Economics and Finance Luis Miguel Castile.
However, the latter refuted what was said by the prime minister, saying that he had never discussed this issue with Willanau. However, Peru has recently been bypassed by serious protests. In contrast, for example, Argentina, traditionally, is one of the epicenters of social unrest in Latin America. Last February was noted by a whole series of protests, in particular in the cities of receiver and Cordov.
Argentines demand that the authorities increase the size of social assistance. The protest movement is gaining strength in Brazil. Since the summer of last year, this largest country in Latin America has been covered by mass discontent caused by a decrease in state costs for social needs and the development of transport. The largest connoisseurs and masters of football, who are rightfully considered by the Brazilians, for the most part, do not accept the fact that the government spent billions of dollars on the organization of the mundial, which should be held in Brazil in the summer of this year.
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, speaking in January at the International Economic Forum in Davos, assured that the country was ready to hold the best world championship in the history of football. However, everything indicates that the mundial will become a good reason for millions of Brazilians to remind of his unenviable social status and express a protest against the economic policy of the government, corruption that covered the entire power system.
Meanwhile, it should be recognized that Brazil is one of the most successful Latin American countries precisely from the point of view of the implementation of socially directed politics. This was largely facilitated by the left governments of the last decade. Therefore, expert circles express the opinion that the current protests in Brazil are a phenomenon of a new order.
Since they occur, despite the fact that the government really makes a lot to pull the poor to the middle class level. But the whole point is that poverty in Latin America, including those relatively developed as Brazil and Argentina, is such a widespread phenomenon and, in a sense, even rooted that it is not possible to cut this Gordian node. A clear example of the difficult realization of a quick social fracture is another Latin American country - Venezuela, in which the protest movement has recently adopted the most acute character.
Many observers do not even exclude the beginning of the Civil War in the Bolivarian Republic. The performances of the Venezuelan opposition are accompanied by fierce clashes with the police, during which dozens of people have already died. Protesters require the authorities to immediately solve nationwide problems from crime rampage to the lack of basic foods and even the resignation of President Nicholas Maduro.
February demonstrations in various cities of Venezuela have become the most massive since the coming to power of Maduro in the spring of the year. He took the post of head of state after the death of the former President Hugo Chavez, who, during his lifetime, appointed Maduro his political successor. However, the continuation of the latter socialist policy of Chavez is faced with big problems.
It is possible that Venezuela, following the example of Cuba, will be forced to go to the card system. True, President Maduro still categorically rejects such a probability.
The card system can greatly hit the authority of Maduro as the leader of the "socialist state", which has the largest oil reserves in Latin America. No less problem for Venezuela than social adversity is crime. Over the past year alone, more than 23 thousand murders were committed in this country. In terms of safety, Venezuela occupies one of the last places in world ratings.
In an effort to achieve a national consensus so necessary for solving the country's pressing problems, to prevent further protests, the leader of Venezuela initiated the convocation of a national conference on reconciliation. However, opposition forces ignored this event, calling Madurov’s negotiations the “political performance” and “insult” in relation to the dead demonstrators.
Meanwhile, in the Venezuelan protests, as well as in the course of riots in other countries of the region, the US factor clearly or invisibly affects, which traditionally, since the time of the monroo doctrine, have been examining Latin America as a zone of its influence. This is especially manifested in the case of countries such as Venezuela, conducting a pronounced anti -American course.Therefore, supporting the local opposition to the United States does not cause any surprise.
Nicholas Maduro himself claims that the actions of the opposition are Washington, who planes a coup d'etat in Venezuela. With this statement, the expulsion of three American diplomats from the country, who, as follows from the explanations of the official Karakas, under the pretext of fulfilling their consular duties penetrated Venezuelan universities and provoked students to anti -government speeches are linked.
The sharp tone of Karakas provoke individual statements by influential US politicians. For example, Senator John McCain, who called on the White House to send warships with a landing to Venezuela in order to "guarantee order in the country and uninterrupted supplies of energy carriers." The mention of the last factor is very remarkable, because the main importer of Venezuelan oil is just the United States.
However, despite all the difficulties of relations with the United States, the leadership of Venezuela, apparently, does not want to aggravate them even more. I accept the challenge, and let's start the dialogue at the top and put the whole truth on the table. "Moreover, Karakas decided to put an end to the current uncertainty in diplomatic relations with the United States, when the diplomatic mission of the two countries has been led by temporary attorneys in affairs.
This situation dates back to December, when Hugo refused to accept Larri Palmer, who was appointed by President Obama. Chavez accusing the latter of disrespectful The statements regarding Venezuela. And now President Maduro has made a new candidate for the Venezuelan Ambassador to the United States: Maximilian Arveles, the current ambassador to Brazil, became. However, this initiative of Karakas is only one of the few gestures of goodwill against the backdrop of riots that gripped Latin America.
The countries of the region are not only overcome by the accumulated for decades, or even for centuries, economic and social hardships. But it is even more difficult to solve these problems in the context of swinging the domestic political situation from the outside, the interest in which individual powers and related transnational corporations showed openly. Both those and others continue to consider Latin America as a zone of influence, an extremely attractive sales market.
This reality, associated with the centuries -old backwardness of the Latin American countries, is so strong that even those regional states that often resort to the measures of left radicalism in their politics try to overcome it with great difficulty.